Alzheimer's Disease

For a local Oktoberfest, Germans and non-Germans alike pull out the lederhosen and dirndls. Irish festivals are covered in tartans and kilts. As for Italian festivals? It's all about the food – everything from the pasta to the Italian ice. The Sons of Italy's Annapolis Italian Festival — more formally known as Festa di Santa Madre Cabrini — celebrates St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, who traveled back and forth from Italy to America in the late 1800s to open schools, orphanages and hospitals for Italian immigrants. Tomorrow, the Annapolis Lodge No. 2225 will have a Mass and then a parade in Cabrini's...

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